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The public appetite for Fifty Shades of Grey was so colossal that
Britain ran out of the silver ink used on the cover, the book’s publisher
has disclosed.

Dame Gail Rebuck, who was chief executive and chairman of Random House until
its merger with Penguin last week, said that even Britain’s biggest
publisher was caught out by the speed at which E. L. James’s erotic novel
was devoured by the public.

In a wide-ranging interview, in which she spoke movingly about tending the
grave of her late husband, Philip Gould, the Labour Party strategist, Ms
Rebuck said that the Fifty